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We had a lovely stay in Verona. I arrived around 8.30 p.m. and it was still very warm. Martin met me, and we drove to a parking house, left the car there and walked over the 'Ponte Nuovo del Popolo' into the historical centre of the city. We were first heading to our room which Martin had booked by Airbnb (first try), so I was quite excited when he directed me to the main square, Piazza delle Erbe, and pointed up towards windows, just below the roof. Wow, an old house overlooking the piazza, not bad. It is lovely to stay on the top floor, it is just that it was five stories up and no elevator! What don't we all do for a little bit of character setting? Piazza delle Erbe, our flat; top three rooms on the left building A room with a view The piazza delle Erbe market We had the whole apartment to ourselves (the other guests had cancelled). Our room overlooked the piazza, and my first thought was,  A Room with a View  E.M. Forster's novel about Florence. Well, ...